The Exile [I am that Adam who, with Snake for guest]

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Title:     The Exile [I am that Adam who, with Snake for guest]
Author: Walter De la Mare [More Titles by De la Mare]

I am that Adam who, with Snake for guest,
Hid anguished eyes upon Eve's piteous breast.
I am that Adam who, with broken wings,
Fled from the Seraph's brazen trumpetings.
Betrayed and fugitive, I still must roam
A world where sin, and beauty, whisper of Home.

Oh, from wide circuit, shall at length I see
Pure daybreak lighten again on Eden's tree?
Loosed from remorse and hope and love's distress,
Enrobe me again in my lost nakedness?
No more with wordless grief a loved one grieve,
But to Heaven's nothingness re-welcome Eve?

[The end]
Walter De la Mare's poem: Exile [I am that Adam who, with Snake for guest]

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